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Friday, January 29, 2016

Samsung Buys 1,000,000 Copies Of Rihanna’s Flopped Album ‘Anti’ But Billboard Won’t Count It Nor Will It Make Her Money

Rihanna

Rihanna’s career has suffered three musical flops in a row.
Fearful her “Anti” album would meet the same fate, it was leaked
by Tidal and a deal was struck with electronics company Samsung
to buy 1,000,000 copies for $1 each and give them to her fans
for free. However, several problems have arisen from the deal.

Billboard charts is refusing to count the Samsung bought
copies as sold, because as some are pointing out online it is
cheating, as Rihanna did not sell said copies. The label Rihanna
records for has lost a significant amount of money, as the album
cost well above $1,000,000 to make. Coupled with its music
videos and additional costs, that’s a good $3,000,000 in debt. Then there are
other fees such as taxes, publishing rights and management fees.

The album also contains several infringing songs and videos
as well that will cost her and the label serious domestic and
international legal fees. In short, the album is hemorrhaging
money. To sum it all up, an album, had they done it right and
lawfully, not stealing from people and being subjected to a
boycott, took three years to make and is costing everyone money,
when it could have made $30,000,000. The entire project is still
very much in red. Not to mention, the reviews are horrible and
justly so.